Aretha Franklin changed popular music forever. There is American music “before Aretha Franklin and after,” said Jack Hamilton, Slate Magazine’s pop critic and a University of Virginia assistant professor.
What would prompt Mueller to issue a subpoena to the President? Saikrishna Prakash, professor of Law, University of Virginia: “Giuliani has been all over the press about how the president wants to testify but not with respect to all of these questions [about obstruction of justice]. This has been going on for months. Perhaps Mueller believes that he just has to ask these questions and play this out to see what the president’s response is.”
Market competition is much more likely to provide relief to consumers than a lawsuit, said Carolyn Engelhard, an associate professor of health policy at the University of Virginia. Still, she said, if the suit does by chance make it to higher courts, changes on the U.S. Supreme Court — conservative U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Brett Kavanaugh has been nominated to fill former Justice Anthony Kennedy’s seat — could help. “If Kavanaugh got appointed, some of these lawsuits could get through and help the consumer, because he’s likely to rule that agencies are over-reaching,” Engelhard said.
Several notable Charlottesville-area residents are heading a project to help communities combat the rise in extremism and intolerance observed since last year’s white supremacist Unite the Right rally. The project, called “Communities Overcoming Extremism: The After Charlottesville Project,” has been organized by the Anti-Defamation League, a group committed to fighting anti-Semitism. Members of the project’s advisory board include A.E. Dick Howard, a law professor at the University of Virginia.
Former White House aide Marc Short on Sunday acknowledged the White House handled its response to last year's violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, poorly. "The White House didn’t handle it as well as it could have from a [public relations] perspective," Short said on ABC's "This Week." Short, who left his post as White House legislative affairs director last month and was recently named a senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center, said that President Trump mixed up his messaging, but refuted assertions that the president has never called out white supremacists by name.
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik, political Analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics) Democrats remain poised to net several governorships, but the size of their gains remain unclear, and there seems to be plenty of competition all across the map.
Another significant new autism study released just a few weeks ago concluded that developing autism is indeed determined by the expectant mother’s microbiome during pregnancy. The findings of scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine raise the possibility that some forms of autism could be prevented.
In “Rooted Cosmopolitans,” James Loeffler, a professor of history and Jewish studies at the University of Virginia, tells the little-known — and fascinating — story of five founding fathers of human rights. As he corrects the “collective amnesia” that surrounds the historical record, Loeffler makes a compelling case that “the political and moral dilemmas facing Jews today” are exacerbated by a “lazy dichotomy” between nationhood “that is positioned in opposition to the world” and human rights universalism “that pretends to come from nowhere.”
As school districts grapple with a shortage of special education teachers, those that train them say the pipeline may be running dry. Special education teacher preparation programs for years have struggled to recruit candidates, and as the problem worsens, colleges and universities are forced to come up with creative ways to enroll and graduate more teachers. The special ed program at the University of Virginia — ranked fourth in the nation by U.S. News and World Report — graduated just 23 students in the class of 2018.
Jaywalking only became a crime in most of the U.S. because automobile manufacturers lobbied intensively for it in the early 1920s, in large measure to head off strict speed limits and other regulation that might have impacted car sales, according to UVA history professor Peter Norton, who wrote a book on the topic.
(Commentary) UVA researchers recently followed a cohort of children from birth to age 15, as they moved in and out of private and public schools. Once they compared apples to apples – “simply controlling for the sociodemographic characteristics” – the so-called private school advantage disappeared.
Despite encountering a traffic accident along the way, Carla Williams arrived in Salem in plenty of time Thursday to address the Roanoke Valley Sports Club. Williams, whose term as UVA athletic director officially began last December, spoke without notes for 30 minutes before answering about a dozen questions.
(Commentary by Jack Hamilton, assistant professor of media studies) Aretha Franklin’s was the voice of the 20th century. No other singer left such a definitive mark on the course of popular music—simply put, there is singing before Aretha Franklin, and there is singing after her.
(Commentary by Jeffrey Constantz, UVA student and Trout Unlimited intern) It’s crucial for all of us to take a moment to consider: What do such policies mean for the health of trout resources, and more broadly, the environment?
“It’s obvious from the high levels of participation in the contested gubernatorial primaries in Minnesota and Wisconsin that Democrats appear to be particularly engaged,” asserts Geoffrey Skelley at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
"Students and teachers report feeling safer and more positive about their schools using a threat assessment approach," said professor Dewey Cornell, a University of Virginia clinical psychologist who studies school safety issues.
National school safety expert and University of Virginia professor Dewey Cornell said that some of the measures schools take to enhance security do not make students feel safer, and it comes at the expense of resources in place at the schools like counselors and teachers.
(Commentary by Mehr Afshan Farooqi, associate professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures) Living and teaching in the United States for the last 20 years in departments of languages and cultures, I have become keenly aware of the phrase ‘native speaker.’
People in Charlottesville are celebrating the legacy of the late UVA history professor Julian Bond, a national equality activist, by preserving his work for generations to come.
On the three-year anniversary of his death, the University of Virginia community is honoring the legacy of civil rights advocate and former UVA professor Julian Bond by launching a project to transcribe thousands of pages of his work.